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Newsletter ISSUE No. 20 June 2019 Inside this Issue Surprise as Judge Refuses to Hear Tilbrook -Surprise as Judge Refuses to Brexit Exit Case hear Brexit Exit Case p1 -Celebrate England’s Birthday A single Judge has said that the that Mr Tilbrook was probably right in his this July with ED p1 Tilbrook case does not merit being assessment. -Write for EV p1 heard. He considered the papers and Not unusual -Brown Bullies England Again p2 refused permission. It is important to remember that at nearly Deadline to appeal every stage of the Gina Miller legal case -Two things the Gov’t don’t want English Democrat Chairman Robin they had to appeal against the initial you to know about Barnett p2 Tilbrook stated:’ Our Application to findings which were usually negative. -NSS Reserach Reveals Appeal the Refusal of Permission was This case has a right to be heard and the Unstunned Meat Widespread in safely issued in time despite the Order Judge not allowing a full court case marks UK Supermarkets p3 being made on almost the only day another nail in the coffin of the idea that we -Editorial p3 which, had I not had my post checked have an impartial and unbiased justice -Join Us to write the Draft daily, could have made me miss the system in the UK. Constitution for England p4 deadline because I was away on holiday Important Point - English Democrats FightsTwo for two weeks’. (There is an extremely What this case does highlight very well is Further Cases: Electoral tight time period following decisions the problems caused by not having a Commission; Facebook made at this level (no merit)for written Constitution; the abolition (under applicants to appeal The time starts Blair of the important role of Lord p4 when the decision is made and not when Chancellor; and the dire state of the -future events p4 the decision is received.editor) Judicial system in England where Setbacks expected competence is sacrificed on the altar of Do You Want to Write For Respected Emeritus Profssor Alan Sked political correctness. English Voice? warned that the Judiciary would put up stiff opposition even though he agreed Robin Tilbrook English Voice is published online at least 6 times a year. It is an Join Us to Celebrate England’s Birthday in opportunity to keep people informed about campaigns and events that the Malmesbury this July English Democrats are promoting. Contribute We are joining the Royal Society of St. resemble those of the current day. If you would like to contribute an George (in their 125th anniversary year) in From that day, Athelstan surpassed the article to the newsletter please a day to remember the unification of our achievements of even his grandfather- forward any copy to the email below English nation on the 12th July 927 AD. Alfred the Great. Alfred had styled or use the contact on This was the day when England was first himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons, but www.englishdemocrats.party. Topics united under one king, King Athelstan, the by his death in 937 Athelstan was can be timely or just something that first King of England. The day of known as Rex Angolorum, the first ever you feel members need to know. The celebration will culminate with a service for King of the England. The event starts at Editor reserves the right to cut articles King Athelstan in Malmesbury Abbey, near 10:30am on July 13th at the Moravian as needed. his tomb. Church; lunch is at 12:30 at The England is the oldest nation in Europe and Bell Inn and finishes at 2:30pm. The we believe that England’s birthday is worth cost is £40 per person and includes 2 celebrating. course lunch at The Bell Inn. On 12th July 927 at Eamont Bridge in Malmesbury is small and venues are Published by the English Democrats,Quires Cumbria, the then King of the Anglo- close together. Green, Ongar,CM5 0QP and Saxons, Athelstan took control of the Please contact: RSSG, PO Box 397, Printed by Prontaprint, Letchworth Garden Viking-ruled lands governed from York. Loughton, IG10 9GN; 02080581115 or City, Herts. From this day we see the creation of a [email protected]. unified England, whose borders closely Contact: English Voice at [email protected] 1 Newsletter ISSUE No.20 June 2019 Brown Bullies England Again! The former, non-elected Prime Minister of our United of Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland before the interests of Kingdom, Gordon Brown, had the insensitivity to deliver a England. speech this week on 25th June, in front of large posters Iniquities continue promoting the collectivist ethos of the Fabian Society and The decades long inequities of the Barnett Formula, later Hope Not Hate. Brown’s words implied his aim was to protect compounded by the devolution settlement, have left England UK traditional values such as free speech and democracy; yet without any equivalent Assembly. The almost weekly barbs the underlying message was to me best reflected in this and tirades from Blackford (SNP) and his motley band over chosen backdrop. Brexit at PMQ’s are more likely to be responsible for the Smear Campaign inevitable reappraisal of our Constitutional arrangements. This Scotsman’s apparent purpose was to smear the front Constitutional reform coming runner in the contest, Boris Johnson, by accusing him of This reappraisal must get underway whenever Brexit is finally English nationalism - thus a threat to the unity of the UK. (The fully accomplished. The necessity of the UK remaining as a following day Boris’ opponent promptly and fittingly, as if part whole in order to leave the EU (as it had entered) has been of a plan, tweeted on his own Scottish, Welsh and Irish links.) acting as a barrage holding back the inevitable coming Falsehoods tsunami of English frustration. The failed former long-serving Finance Minister & Premier’s Fake Unionist duplicity in speeches over many years are well known. This Gordon Brown seems here to be playing the card of Scot’s latest episode is noteworthy as some assert that his nationalism and fake UK unionist patriotism in order to interferrence swung the Scottish Referendum away from complete the removal of all accountable representative independence. He stated the alarming premise that devolution democracy and Sovereignty from each of the nations that would be akin to Home Rule for Scotland and lead to a federal encompass the UK. Those Nations may become (perhaps UK. indefinitely) ruled by appointed foreign autocrats of the England comes last increasingly expansionist and dysfunctional EU. English Democrat members are aware that the present Conservative Party (under whatever leader) put the interests Martin T Cole Two things the Government does not want you to know about the Barnett Formula (by Mike Blundell) Some Things you should know I had researched initially a talk about the Barnett Formula sub- titled ten things the Government does not want you to know. But, I have shortened it to two things; to keep it short and to keep it focused on two big key things Identifiable expenditure does not exist Commentators usually explain the Barnett Formula as working on the basis of identifiable English expenditure, with Treasury doing the identification. In practise, no Government departments accounts for its expenditure by UK territory. The so called “identification” by Treasury is an assessment of planned expenditure programmes by Departments; if the programme is primarily on services which have been devolved then all of the planned expenditure of that programme has a Barnett consequence (ie: money to the non-English territories). This ignores that substantial sums (billions) are spent on UK activities (eg. Brexit). No independent check Representatives of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Governments are involved in Treasury’s assessment. Their input is secret (HM Treasury use policy forming grounds to forbid disclosure). There is no one to represent England. The National Audit Office does not check Treasury’s operation of the Barnett Formula (it is outside it’s terms of reference). Neither does Treasury send back its analysis to the source Departments for a check. The combination of a crude assessment of applicable spend and the substantial involvement of groups who are strongly motivated to get for themselves as much out of the system as possible can mean only one thing. We are being ripped off. Contact: English Voice at [email protected] 2 W Newsletter Issue No. 20 June 2019 NSS Research Reveals Unstunned Meat Widespread in UK Supermarkets Kimble to the NSS. The National Secular Society (NSS) examined the NSS chief executive Stephen Evans said the research had policies of 11 supermarket chains and their online ‘demonstrated the need for more robust action on unstunned produce range, and found that the majority require all meat’. He added ‘words must be followed with action…’hiding meat for their own-brand products to be pre-stunned. away the provenance of unstunned meat helps normalise This is line with animal welfare legislation requiring animal cruelty and serves the interests of religious hardliners animals to be stunned before slaughter to minimise who want to increase its supply. Ultimately animal welfare laws suffering. But several sell non-stunned meat only from should apply fairly across society. This means repeal of the other brands, and only two credibly commit to selling religious exemption that permits non-stun slaughter in the first meat only from animals that are pre-stunned. place’. No labelling No legislation Four supermarkets-Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and At present there is no legislation requiring meat from animals Tesco-sold halal meat from animals which are not slaughtered without stunning to be labelled as such, meaning stunned, without clear labelling to indicate this.